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One China, Many Taiwans: The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism

One China, Many Taiwans: The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Ian RowenPublish date:2023-01-15Pages:200
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cornell University PressISBN-13:9781501767692ISBN-10:1501767690UPC:9781501767692Book Category:History, Political Science, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Asia, Geopolitics, AnthropologyBook Topic:China, Cultural & SocialSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.45 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCM8PS7M5W

One China, Many Taiwans shows how tourism performs and transforms territory. In 2008, as the People's Republic of China pointed over a thousand missiles across the Taiwan Strait, it sent millions of tourists in the same direction with the encouragement of Taiwan's politicians and businesspeople. Contrary to the PRC's efforts to use tourism to incorporate Taiwan into an imaginary "One China," tourism aggravated tensions between the two polities, polarized Taiwanese society, and pushed Taiwanese popular sentiment farther toward support for national self-determination.

Consequently, Taiwan was performed as a part of China for Chinese group tourists versus experienced as a place of everyday life. Taiwan's national identity grew increasingly plural, such that not just one or two, but many Taiwans coexisted, even as it faced an existential military threat. Ian Rowen's treatment of tourism as a political technology provides a new theoretical lens for social scientists to examine the impacts of tourism in the region and worldwide.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Cornell University PressISBN-13:9781501767692ISBN-10:1501767690UPC:9781501767692Book Category:History, Political Science, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Asia, Geopolitics, AnthropologyBook Topic:China, Cultural & SocialSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.45 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCM8PS7M5W

Ian Rowen is Associate Professor at National Taiwan Normal University. He is the editor of Transitions in Taiwan. Follow him on X @iirowen.


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